From: Philip B. <ph...@bo...> - 2003-08-11 19:34:52
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:59:41AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: >... > It is inconsistent, on purpose. It's essentially like perl's > > return unless pointer; > > which is a oneliner, almost like an assert(). perl is EEeeeeevil.... > Maybe this will help: I insist on braces on anything with indentation so > that I can scan them more quickly. If I gave you a choice between > > if (!pointer) { > return (whatever); > } > > if (!pointer) return (whatever); > > which one will you type more often? if (!pointer) { return (whatever); } because it's consistent, and guaranteed safe from stupid parsing errors that can waste days of debug time when someone decides to add to it. ("its just a little change that cant hurt anything", ha ha) Style Matters. (and so do comments, while we're on the subject) |